Photography arrived relatively late in my life. My first camera was a gift from my sister for my 18th birthday — a simple gesture that changed everything.

Yet in many ways, the ground had already been prepared long before that. I grew up in an environment where attention to beauty and culture was simply part of everyday life : years of piano, singing polyphonic music at church, the rhythm of the Latin mass, and a home shaped by language and classical literature through my mother, who teaches Greek and Latin. Without realizing it then, those early influences formed my sensitivity to harmony, structure, and atmosphere.

My connection to the Mediterranean developed just as naturally. I grew up not far from it, and as a child the sea was always synonymous with escape — the place where summers felt larger, freer, full of possibility. At seventeen I moved to Montpellier for my studies, where I gradually discovered the rhythms, warmth and openness of Mediterranean life.



Today I live in Aix-en-Provence, and the sea remains close without ever being part of my everyday routine. I go whenever I can. That distance keeps its sense of dream intact — something just within reach, yet never ordinary — and it continues to nourish my imagination and inspire the way I see.